Posted on: December 22, 2020
DonnyTheWalrus
Игр: 197 Отзывов: 5
Nearly perfect game
The unfortunate thing with Lucas Pope's games is that they tend to occupy a genre of 1. I say unfortunate because this game left me heartbroken that there are not 100 like it. For my tastes, this is about as perfect as a game can get. Very tight, very well designed mystery/deduction game with a good mix of "so obvious you'd have to be sleeping to miss it" clues and "expert deducers only" clues. I think the art direction is stunningly cool, the sounds are incredible, and in general I found the whole experience deeply immersive. There's not much else to say, really. Maybe if I'm nitpicking, the meta story that ties everything together could have been a bit stronger? It seemed like it was going somewhere more... significant, I guess? It's not bad by any means, I'm really being picky here. For bonus fun, get a friend/spouse/SO to play through it separately and simultaneously, and then come together at the end to discuss. My wife and I did this and it was really cool how much we both got into it. A great shared activity even though we didn't directly solve it together. I suppose you could also do it couch-"co-op" style but I have a hard time doing puzzle games with other people and it worked really well as a "book club"-style game. Last thing I'll say is, don't listen to the people who claim the game gets grindy and there's no way to figure out some of the later characters. It's not true. Every single answer can be deduced without any guess work at all. Now, some of them are fiendishly difficult, and I don't think there's any shame in making a few educated guesses at the end, but the ability to use your brain cells to solve it the right way is there if you want it. (And the fan wiki is there at the end to show you all the obvious-in-hindsight things you missed.)
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